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This week was my first week of classes, or I should say my first 3 days because I don't have class on Mondays or Tuesdays. As great as that is, it does make for a very tiring 12hrs of class on Wednesday. Each class is an hour and 45min which is surprisingly very hard to sit through! And I'm taking politics and economy for the first time in my life, hopefully it ends up being easier than I ...

This second time down the green slope I didn't fall. Not even once! We even did a little bit of a blue hill to get back to the base area. At this point, I felt like I was holding Katy from doing the harder routes so since I had kinda figured out how to go forward and was a little more confident I decided to try an entire blue route.

My first time down this route wasn't too bad. I fell once while I was trying to ...

... one in a zillion I reckon of being at that chairlift gate at that time when that snowboarder does a fast slide to uncover that piece of snow skied over by hundreds of people since I had lost it and releasing the buried lift pass. Zipping it tightly in my pocket I caught the group for lunch and told the lucky lucky story.We celebrated later with an afternoon tea of chocolate cake and Kelly nominated me for hero of the day for buying it, it was that ...

... the crisp air. Nicky also had a go and again it climbed away but her couple of extra kilos of weight made what I thought was a signifiant difference to the take off run. This looked like a VERY weight critical machine too me. Now the Boys from Chapter 24 at Jandakot generally regard me as being the least competent aviator of the bunch, well actually the least technically qualified, but even I know that this machine only has so much power, the same lifting surface and the ...